Richard Pryor Quotes

No one has a life where everything that happened was good. I think the thing that made life good for me is that I never looked back. I've always been positive, no matter what happened.

Life is not about dwelling on the bad.

I have always tried to move on from disappointments as fast as I can.

I am a guy who likes to put the bad things and difficult times behind me.

You can't dwell on disappointment. You've got to take the positives and keep looking ahead.

You can either get bitter, or you can get better.

When things don't go your way, the day after you wake up and try to get better and be as good as you can be the next day.

I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said 'Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.'

I'm taking all the negatives in my life, and turning them into a positive.

I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives.

When something disappointing happened, my mother would remind me not to let that become my focus. There's still so much to be grateful for.

How do you come back? It's one step at a time. I'm optimistic because I don't know what else to be.

When you get punched, you have to get up. You have no other choice. If you don't, you're not going to grow, you're not going to get better as a player.

'Grease' changed my life in the most amazing way, and I've had such an amazing life. When things go wrong, you've got to believe you will get through them and focus on the positive things in your life.

I'm a suck-it-up-and-move-on kind of person. Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.

'Try Again' - every time I hear that song, it just brings a smile to your face. When you're feeling like crap, and you hear, 'Dust yourself off and try again,' it kind of just puts you in a different mindset, 100 percent.

I don't see the point in being bitter.

As cheesy and cornball as it sounds, life does get better - if you want it to.

Never become bitter, and in the process, be happy and just go for it.

The only advice you can give is, 'Don't let the bad stuff keep you down.'

In my life, I don't have roadblocks and obstacles. I might have something you would call a 'challenge.' I throw that out the window, and I call that a wonderful opportunity.

I have settled on just kind of what I always settle on: To keep getting better and try and affect people positively sometimes. Don't be so negative all the time.

I have learnt that life is full of ups and downs. And even though I've had rough times, I can't complain.

Things happen for some reason. I don't know what, but I just think about the positives, focus on getting better, and that's it.

I turned sadness into an anthem for not letting anything or anyone slow you down.